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Excerpt from untitled address delivered to the Illinois Convention of The Disciples of Christ at Bethany Park Christian Church, Rantoul, IL (1964-04-21)

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Dr, Littell discussed the ecumenical, inter-church relations under
three rubrics: Dialogue, Laity, Discipline, He argued that the
churches in the free society are making major contributions in
maintaining centers of full, free, and informed discussion, and
criticized some other institutions for failing to defend the truth
and the rules of honest discussion, specifically he criticized "the
president and the student government and the teaching faculty" of
the University of Illinois. He said all of them had "flunked their
exams in the Oliver Case."
"Those sworn to uphold the integrity of the republic
of learning as a center of raging dialogue bowed
obsequiously to Mrs, Grundy in the Leo Koch case
and then swallowed in the case of Revilo Oliver a
viciousness and obscenity so colossal as to stagger
the imagination of decent men."
Dr. Littell compared the "treason of the intellectuals" to the failure
of professors at Marburg, Heidelberg, Berlin and other German universities which contributed to the rise of Hitler and Nazism, and said that
while they justified their failure to act on the basis of a spurious
and speculative "freedom they contributed to the undermining of the
liberties of all Americans.
An address by Dr. Franklin H. Littell, Professor of Church History at
Chicago Theological Seminary, to the Illinois Convention of the Disciples
of Christ at Bethany Park Christian Church, Rantoul, Illinois, April
21, 1964.

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L fafa
Dr, Littell discussed the ecumenical, inter-church relations under
three rubrics: Dialogue, Laity, Discipline, He argued that the
churches in the free society are making major contributions in
maintaining centers of full, free, and informed discussion, and
criticized some other institutions for failing to defend the truth
and the rules of honest discussion, specifically he criticized "the
president and the student government and the teaching faculty" of
the University of Illinois. He said all of them had "flunked their
exams in the Oliver Case."
"Those sworn to uphold the integrity of the republic
of learning as a center of raging dialogue bowed
obsequiously to Mrs, Grundy in the Leo Koch case
and then swallowed in the case of Revilo Oliver a
viciousness and obscenity so colossal as to stagger
the imagination of decent men."
Dr. Littell compared the "treason of the intellectuals" to the failure
of professors at Marburg, Heidelberg, Berlin and other German universities which contributed to the rise of Hitler and Nazism, and said that
while they justified their failure to act on the basis of a spurious
and speculative "freedom they contributed to the undermining of the
liberties of all Americans.
An address by Dr. Franklin H. Littell, Professor of Church History at
Chicago Theological Seminary, to the Illinois Convention of the Disciples
of Christ at Bethany Park Christian Church, Rantoul, Illinois, April
21, 1964.